This tale, as recounted with almost too much relish by the wonderful Fiver, is only for those of you with strong constitutions. But it confirms, in glorious Technicolor, what we all know about referees.
Servette, a troubled Swiss football side, visited Schafthausen yesterday, and registered what should have been a morale-boosting 4-1 victory. Alas for them, something went horribly, horribly wrong.
"’Some players were crying in the dressing room,’ said a doleful Servette manager Adrian Ursea. ‘What happened to Paulo is terribly shocking.’
Paulo Diogo, you see, is a popular Servette midfielder who was so ecstatic about setting up his side’s third goal that he jumped up onto the fence surrounding the pitch. As he got back down, Diogo caught his wedding ring on a metal barrier … and off came his finger.
As he shrieked in pain, stewards rushed to retrieve the fallen digit and pack it in ice in the hope that doctors could reattach it. They couldn’t."
The referee then booked Diogo for excessive celebration. I shit ye not.
Throwing a fresh pair of legs onto the pitch wouldn’t helped much neither.